Exploring the Complexity of Revenge

What is revenge? Why do we think revenge is okay? Do we actually mean to commit revenge to others and ourselves? We tend to seek revenge after something that has happen that was bad that makes us mad. Why do we think revenge can be justified or misunderstood? Revenge can be sought out to be justified by others. Personally revenge is not a good thing to say that’s it the best thing to do as mad person. As most people would say revenge is a bad thing which it is but others say that its’ okay to have or to do revenge on someone who made them upset. As Girard states in his book “To seek singularity in revenge is a vain enterprise but to shrink from revenge, in a world which looks upon it as a “sacred duty” is to exclude oneself from society, to become a nonentity once more.” (Hamlets Dull Revenge Line 51-53). What he is saying that people seek revenge to cause vain which is a sacred duty as he mentions to show society how they feel. What we

If its one of your own children or spouse, you feel sadness or anger when finding out the news. In the article written by Alex Kotlowitz, he writes a story about blocking the transmission of violence. He states in his article “ Last summer, Martin Torres was working as a cook in Austin, Tex., when, on the morning of Aug. 23, he received a call from a relative. His 17-year-old nephew, Emilio, had been murdered. According to the police, Emilio was walking down a street on Chicago’s South Side when someone shot him in the chest, possibly the culmination of an ongoing dispute. Like many killings, Emilio’s received just a few sentences in the local newspapers. Torres, who was especially close to his nephew, got on the first Greyhound bus to Chicago. He was grieving and plotting retribution. “I thought, Man, I’m going to take care of business,” he told me recently. “That’s how I live. I was